I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus ... this, that and the other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles), who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as ‘Claudius the [[Idiot]', or ‘That Claudius', or ‘Claudius the Stammerer', or ‘Clau-Clau-Claudius', or at best as ‘Poor Uncle Claudius', am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the ‘golden predicament' from which I have never since become disentangled. (Robert Graves)

I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus ... this, that and the other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles), who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as ‘Claudius the [[Idiot]', or ‘That Claudius', or ‘Claudius the Stammerer', or ‘Clau-Clau-Claudius', or at best as ‘Poor Uncle Claudius', am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the ‘golden predicament' from which I have never since become disentangled.

Robert Graves

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